WTF is Pinocchio in Outer Space?

I've never heard of this before, and I think I'm okay with that. Seriously, what drugs were the people who made this taking?

Oh man. I had completely forgotten this one. Like recalling some kind of fever dream.

Is the other ship superman.

The one place not corrupted by pleasure island….. SPACE!!!

You should ask what is "964 Pinnochio"

Nevermind, you really shouldn't...

Are we gonna get another Fanscription soon?

I feel like some 6 year old dreamed this up while having the flu 😂

Frank Grimes: You? You've been to space?

Homer: Sure. You've never been?

Cold War Pinocchio is weird.
Didn’t think I’d ever see those two things collide but the 60’s be like that sometimes.

Bro I had the same reaction recently when I rediscovered Small Soldiers

Won't lie, I thought Nurdle was Jose from Three Caballeros for a second.

I saw this in a movie theatre and never could connect with it. Interesting movie though.

I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid and I totally enjoyed it.

👍🏻

Holy shirt balls, I remember seeing this on TV when I was a kid! So it wasn't a dream!

Sooooo....when are we getting a full Nostalgia Critic review of this movie?

It looks like I have a new 2D film to track down for my collection.
Thank you!

"Too primitive for a row-butt."

I barely vaguely remember seeing this once. One of those I wasn't never quite sure it was real until stumbling across it again as an adult.

Still looks better than Pinocchio 3000

As someone who read Collodi's book, I will say that this isn't that strange in terms of Pinocchio media.

I saw maybe half of the French version on TV when I was a kid in the 70's and found it very cool. At 59 I found the complete film online and turned it off when the signing started. It was made by Belvision who made many animated movies based on comic series with Gossens as the master mind.A comic adaptation of Pinocchio in space was published in Spirou or Tintin magazine.

I used to rent this one all the time from the ma and pa video store back in the day.

Wasn't anywhere near as sexy as I thought it'd be.

As if that wasn't enough.....




December of '65 saw the premiere of this freak-out of a film.
The following month, January of '66, saw the television premiere of a crazier attempt at an old property....




BAT-MAAAAAAAAAANNNN!😂😂😂

Ladderman was a Aquarius. That explains Pinnochio in Outer space

I had the experience described. I can't remember where I found it, I think I remember it blowing my mind and just never found it again.

I forgot about it until now. I do remember a feeling of dread while watching it. Like maybe it was something I shouldn't have seen.

Can't wait for this to be the next episode of first viewing with Douge and Rob XD

This is one of those movies that would pop up on the nostalgia theater after Saturday morning cartoons were over or at odd times when some sporting event or other was short and the station needed filler (back in the days before infomercials filled all those time slots). I’d seen this movie a half dozen times - but never the whole thing (because it was always so random whenever it would air).

I thought it was AWESOME (as a seven year old who’d grown up watching reruns of Star Trek and Lost in Space and Apollo missions, watching Thundarr the Barbarian on Saturday mornings, and reading Heinlein novels like Between Planets. It was right up the sci-fi alley.

Oh yeah. This was a half remembered fever dream for me too until the Internet came along. I seemed to recall seeing it in elementary school in the mid 70's on our 16 mm projector. Another time we saw "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". No Disney for us kids - pure B Movies

I saw this in theaters as a kid. Still remember having a good time but I was was like 5 or 6 lol

I grew up in the 70's and this was on local syndicated TV all the time. Never scared me but I was into Sci Fi & monsters to begin with. I loved it. Also have you seen 1960's "Alakazam the Great"? 1939's "Gulliver's Travels " or 1959's"The Snow Queen" ? 3 more animated films that were on TV a lot.

Music in this video is just awesome)

Correction: Filmation's The Ghost Busters premiered in 1986, five days before The Real Ghostbusters would premiere.

I had also seen the credit for Belvision in the cartoon series of Herge's Adventures Of Tintin, so did that series follow?

The huntsman in the duck scene reminded me of the professor in the Felix The Cat cartoons.

I first saw this movie when I was about three years old, I figure it must have been 1970.

As a three year old, I accepted it. It didn’t make much sense, but I was three: not much makes a lot of sense when you’re three. Try making sense out of “The Ghost in an Invisible Bikini” when you’re three. (For some reason my local UHF station ran that one a lot). Anyway, I remember watching it at night, and probably falling asleep a couple times. It aired a couple times, maybe once a year when I was little.

We moved, we moved again, we moved again, I forgot about it. When I was around ten or so, the local UHF station where I lived in those days ran commercials for it. They’d be running it that weekend. And again, they ran it about once a year until my early teens. The moment I saw the commercial, I flashed back to my vague little kid memories, and was like, “THAT! I REMEMBER THAT!” I was particularly wondering what was up with the space whale. And I watched it. I think. Most likely I watched a large portion of it. I remember it feeling like a fever dream at the time.

Decades went by and people would talk about weird movies they’d seen, and I’d mention this one, but no one ever believed me. I couldn’t give a coherent description of the plot, and while I was certain it existed, it definitely felt like a half-remembered dream.

I got it through Netflix DVD 10 or 15 years ago, and watched the whole thing through. I had definitely scene the whole thing before I rewatched it - whether in one sitting or acquired over multiple sittings, I don’t know - because I recognized everything, though I’d forgotten it was a musical. (Probably because the movie itself seems to forget its a musical for long stretches of the runtime). I think I even reviewed it for a website I was working on at the time, but, golly, it’s one random movie.

That said, I love it. I’ve seen it as an adult and it still feels like something from a half-remembered dream.

First up, it’s definitely trying to cash in on the already-present nostalgia for the Disney Pinnochio. There are definitely some scenes in here that play like scenes that are referencing the original film as closely as they can without getting sued by The Mouse. The Fox, for instance. And some of it plays like a parody of the Disney flick, such as the Blue Fairy just hanging out in space. Because of course she’s in space. You only get her when you wish on a star, right? Follows she’d be near the stars, right?

The thing that jumped out at me as an early teen and a middle-aged-man was its oddball diversions into telling us all that was known about Mars at the time (most of which is pretty inaccurate, but seemed a reasonable bet at the time).

My hunch is that the prolog was so damn long so they could pad out the run time for theaters up to 90 minutes. It used to be you could have 70 minute B-pictures for Saturday matinees, but by the mid 60s, that wasn’t really a thing anymore. As for the weird insistence on accuracy, I think it was probably Scheimer’s way of justifying the project whenever someone would very reasonably ask, “Yeah, but why in space?” Because space is a big deal and kids need to learn about it. It’s an educational film!

It’s also possible - I have no idea it it’s true or not - but I think it’s possible that he might have been eligible for some kind of tax credit, or maybe an educational award if he threw that stuff in. Even in those days they’d roll in the AV projector and run movies in assemblies and stuff in grade school, so maybe he was hoping for a piece of that action. Dunno, but I’m happy he did it as it just added to the overall “Did someone drop acid in my food?” Quality of the film.

Thanks so much for doing this! I just subscribed.

"This movie will make you ask 'why?'"

Me: Can't be that weird.

""Satellites were destroyed by a space whale named Astro."

Me: "oh...It's this type of weird."

"Could actually happen to a puppet...come alive." At last, all our questions will be answered about such a scenario.

⚠️Seizure warning!

This is on par with the 70s Japanese animated Jack and the Beanstalk movie in terms of weirdness! 🤯

I happened to find this movie earlier this year and it was an entertaining watch with how bonkers the premise is. Was great seeing you encounter it for yourself.

Wow, memories! I saw this when I was very young, in the 70's! Gonna go look it up now, thanks!

There must have been some potent LSD.

It was broadcast on TV, at least once. I forgot what the film was called, but I remember watching on a Saturday afternoon, in the early 1970s

Pinocchio... in space... why do I have the sneaking suspicion that the use of illegal substances played a major role in cooking up this plot? 😅

Very well done video

This looks like it could be the best pointless Pinocchio sequel

Why is Pinocchio in outer space? WHY?!?!?!?